We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.
JIM VALVANOI’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you’re ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
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We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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I can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
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